Technical documents from the Canemah Nature Laboratory. All documents are open access with permanent, citable URLs.
This note captures an emerging methodology for rendering essays as visual glyphs—translating textual topology into image form. Prompted by Karpathy’s observation that LLMs need their own GUI (visual output native to the medium), we explored whether the Coffee with Claude essay corpus could be...
Recent theoretical work by Milinkovic and Aru (2026) argues that biological consciousness depends on computational properties absent from digital systems: scale-inseparable processing across organizational levels and hybrid discrete-continuous dynamics embedded in metabolically constrained...
This technical note extends the Novelization Engine methodology (CNL-TN-2025-022) to articulate a generalized framework for format-agnostic story system development. The central finding: the Novelization Engine does not produce a novel—it produces a *story system* capable of rendering into...
This technical note documents the Novelization Engine—a methodology for developing long-form fiction through structured human-AI collaboration. The approach integrates cognitive prosthesis theory, systematic documentation infrastructure, and iterative refinement protocols to transform dormant...
This protocol documents the Wiki-Lyrical Engine (WLE), an autonomous agent that samples random Wikipedia articles during "sleep" cycles, accumulates pattern fragments in a buffer, and upon "waking" produces three poetic compressions: a limerick, a haiku, and a what-if hypothesis. A second-stage...
This technical note proposes that validated scientific knowledge should have legal standing—a bundle of rights to preservation, accessibility, continuity, and integrity—with AI systems potentially serving as guardians or embodiments. The argument extends Christopher Stone's landmark 1972 essay...
This note captures an emerging conceptual architecture for visualizing a semantic knowledge base of approximately 600 diverse passages, each tagged with five or more descriptive terms. The central insight is a spatial metaphor: the *house of mind*, where the exterior presents discrete passages as a...
This protocol documents the Quotes Collection infrastructure, a LAMP-based personal knowledge management system for curating, organizing, and exploring a lifetime collection of quotations. The system transforms an unstructured text file of 617 quotes spanning decades of intellectual exploration...
This technical note presents a detailed analysis of the MacroscopeQT HyperCard codebase, developed between 1991 and 1995 on a Color Macintosh II named Minerva at the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve. The system represented the first integration of Apple's QuickTime multimedia framework with the...
This technical note describes Smart Markdown, a lightweight implementation of dynamic variable substitution for markdown-based content management systems. The system allows authors to embed tokens (e.g., `{{essay_count}}`) within document content that resolve to current database values at render...
This protocol documents the Coffee with Claude (CWC) blog infrastructure, a lightweight LAMP-based content management system designed for personal publishing, essay archiving, and newsletter distribution. The system emphasizes simplicity, maintainability, and portability across multiple website...
This technical note republishes the 1986 paper "The Macroscope: An Interactive Videodisc System for Environmental and Forestry Education" by Hamilton and Lassoie, originally presented at the Forestry Microcomputer Software Symposium in Morgantown, West Virginia. The original paper described an...
This technical note provides a comprehensive historical summary of the Electronic Museum Institute proposal, written in January 1984 by Michael P. Hamilton at the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Idyllwild, California. The proposal represents the first formal articulation of what would become a...
This technical note documents an experimental investigation into factual accuracy across language models of varying parameter counts. Using a structured protocol of 25 questions spanning geography, science, history, culture, and technical domains, we assessed whether smaller language models could...
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